Summary of operations from March 1, Ditto, Sept. 1, 1854, to Dec. 1, 1854 Ditto, Dec. 1, 1854, to March 1, 1855... Ditto, March 1, 1855, to Sept. 1, 1855. Ditto, Sept. 1, 1855, to Dec. 1, 1855 Ditto, Dec. 1, 1855, to March 1, 1856... 139 Ditto, March 1, 1856, to Sept. 1, 1856. 188 Elementary Teachers' Association 61, 111 Effect of Good Teaching on the Moral Normal College Examination Papers, Hints to Female Teachers intending .25, 59 Ditto, Midsummer 1857 273 36 211, 219 266 Retirement of Mr. Dunn' The late Samuel Gurney, Esq. Ditto, the Prodigal Son 163 Ditto, the Manufacture of Paper 86 235 38 Examination of Children in Schools...268 The Botanical Primer; Library Edi- The Prefixes and Affixes of the Eng- lish Language; Practical Illustra- tions of the Principles of School Architecture; the Sunday School Teacher's Magazine; Lectures in Connexion with the Educational Exhibition of the Society of Arts; Manual of German Conversation; Discoveries in Chinese; One Thou- sand Questions on the Old Testa- Elements of Rhetoric: a School Boy's First Pen-and-Ink Exercises on the Latin Accidence; Library of the British Poets; the Essentials of English Grammar, and Analysis; Spelling taught by Transcribing and Dictation, in a series of Exercises, especially adapted to Home Work; Lessons, with Foot-notes, Explana- Lyrics for Youth; Library Edition of the British Poets; Bowles' Poetical Lardner's Hand-Book of Natural Phi- losophy; Schnorr's Bible Pictures; the School Singing-Book; the Theory and Practice of Notes of Lessons; Bible Exercises, or Scripture Refer- Russia and her Czars; Rational Arithmetic; Ahn's Simple Method of learning the French Language; Conversational French Phrases; Voltaire's Histoire de Charles XII. 114 Lardner's Museum of Science and Art; A Daily Text-Book for Home Lessons; A Guide to Astronomical Science; Genealogical Text-book of British History; Betts's Geographical Slate, with a map engraved on each side; the Present Aspects of the Scottish Catechism of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms; Classified Abridgment of the Minutes of Coun- An Etymological Dictionary of Scrip- White's Drawing Exercises, adapted to Collective and Individual Teach- ing, and Drawing for Elementary Schools; the Pupil-Teachers' Ma nual, adapted to each year of their 162 THE EDUCATIONAL RECORD. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS, FROM MARCH 1, 1854, TO SEPT. 1, 1854. One hundred and ninety-one students have been in training in the Normal College. Forty-eight have received appointments to schools. Twelve have withdrawn, either from illness, a desire to change their occupation, or a want of fitness for the work. One hundred and twenty remain in the Institution. Eighteen schools have received temporary assistance during the illness or otherwise necessary absence of their teachers. PUBLICATION OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. The brief abstract given in our last comprised the most important facts connected with the Society's operations during the year ending in May, 1854. The Report of the Society, which has since been issued to the Subscribers, contains, in addition to those facts, some interesting statements relating to the general progress of popular education among us. In particular, we wish to call the attention of such of our readers as do not receive the Report, to the following remarks, describing the position occupied by the British and Foreign School Society in relation to modern educational movements, and the precise nature and limits of the assistance which it receives from the funds at the disposal of the Government. "The aid of the Committee of Council is strictly confined to the Model and Normal Schools; the general operations of the Society are as entirely dependent on voluntary subscriptions as they ever were. "The reason is obvious. The Society has a work to do which Government cannot recognize. It deals extensively with a class of schools, the supporters of which are either unable, or unwilling, to receive Government aid. It often acts at home, and generally in the colonies, through Societies having mainly religious objects; and, therefore, altogether unconnected with the State. Its agencies all tend to protect the schools from any possible interference with their liberty of action. It provides, in fact, against dangers to which the reception of State aid might expose, if the organizations of the Government were not met by this and similar organizations of the voluntary principle. "Further, it should be remembered that the Society, as such, is the only effective |
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